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Aunt Minnie (1/10, Kim) reports that researchers have created a “3D-printed robot-guided device capable of facilitating MR-guided breast biopsy and improving the accuracy of breast cancer diagnosis.” The group includes Vincent Groenhuis, Françoise Siepel, PhD, and Stefano Stramigioli, PhD, from the Robotics and Mechatronics laboratory at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. The article says, “In a proof-of-concept study, the researchers found that the device was able to maneuver a needle toward target coordinates inside the breast with extreme precision on a single attempt.” The device is called Stormram 4 and it won the Surgical Robot Challenge at the 2017 Hamlyn Symposium in London, “a major event in the field of robotic surgery.”